Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
48 pending office actions • 9 clients • 47 examiners • 32 art units • 0 of 48 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
GATES & COOPER LLP (General) has a track record in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. The firm has managed a total of 34213 career applications, which is a high volume of work. This dataset of 34213 applications provides a view of their long-term prosecution trends. Currently, the firm has 34 pending office actions.
The firm's resolved allowance rate is 84.55 percent. To secure these allowances, the firm averages 3.82 office actions per allowance. This 3.82 average reflects the inherent complexity and examination standards of the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals sector. The 84.55 percent allowance rate indicates a level of success despite these challenges.
With 34 pending office actions, the firm continues its work in this field. The 34213 career applications demonstrate a depth of experience. Practitioners can use the 84.55 percent resolved allowance rate and the 3.82 average office actions per allowance to set expectations for the prosecution of complex biotech and pharmaceutical patents.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 13 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 13 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
Difficulty is derived from the rejection statutes on the most recent pending office action. §101-driven and multi-statute cases are graded Hard; §112-only and obviousness-type double-patenting cases are graded Easy; everything else is Medium. "Unknown" means we have not yet parsed a statute for that office action.
| Bucket | Cases |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 2 (4%) |
| §103 only | 13 (27%) |
| §102 only | 2 (4%) |
| §112 only | 1 (2%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (2%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 5 (10%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 24 (50%) |
How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.
Manual office-action response work runs about 10 hours per case. The time-saved bands below show what IP Author's prosecution pipeline typically delivers — a conservative 20% on the low end, 35% in the middle, 50% on the high end.
| Examiner | Apps on this docket | Allow rate | Interview lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| YU, DAVID TUYANG | 2 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| CHOY, PAN G | 1 | 24.4% | +34.9% |
| CHEN, CHIA-LING | 1 | 51.3% | +42.0% |
| HOLMES, REX R | 1 | 80.2% | +17.9% |
| SOHN, SEUNG C | 1 | 87.1% | +9.0% |
| LIPPERT, JOHN WILLIAM | 1 | 58.2% | +40.0% |
| HAUK TEODORO, PRICILA NMN | 1 | 50.0% | +0.0% |
| BARSKY, JARED | 1 | 50.2% | +22.7% |
| AHMED, MASHAL | 1 | — | — |
| TRAN, LONG T | 1 | 83.2% | +13.8% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18254086 | CRISPR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN COMPLEX GENOME EDITING OF HUMAN INNATE IMMUNE CELLS | YU, DAVID TUYANG | 71d |
| 18819803 | QUANTUM COHERENT RECEIVER | SOHN, SEUNG C | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18532212 | DECOMPOSABLE AND RECYCLABLE EPOXY THERMOSETTING RESINS | MCCULLEY, MEGAN CASSANDRA | 113d overdue |
| 18175378 | METHOD FOR GENERATION OF RANDOM QUANTUM STATES AND VERIFICATION OF QUANTUM DEVICES | HALES, BRIAN J | 30d overdue |
| 18248740 | METHOD OF TRANSFERRING A PATTERN TO AN EPITAXIAL LAYER OF A LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE | QI, HUA | 19d overdue |
| 18476808 | NOVEL COATING METHOD OF COMPLEX 3D STRUCTURES USING LOW PRESSURE CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION | CHEN, KEATH T | 28d |
| 18290257 | PRODUCTION OF ENGINEERED T CELLS FROM STEM CELLS | VIVLEMORE, TRACY ANN | 55d |
| 18252605 | DEVELOPMENT OF A NOVEL ELISA-BASED POINT-OF-CARE ANTIGEN TEST FOR SARS-COV-2 | LUSI, ELLIS FOLLETT | 75d |
| 17912821 | PSILOCYBIN AND PSILOCIN CONTAINING COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF USING AND MAKING THE SAME | CAIN, JENNIFER LYNN | 79d |
| 19245077 | Swarm Based Orchard Management | CHOY, PAN G | — |
Cases in front of an examiner whose interview lift is 10 percentage points or more — i.e. interviewed cases historically resolve more favorably than non-interviewed ones. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19245077 | Swarm Based Orchard Management | CHOY, PAN G | — |
| 18990696 | RANGING WITH INTEGRATED OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATORS | CHEN, CHIA-LING | — |
| 18849414 | BIOELECTRONIC SMART BANDAGE FOR CONTROLLING WOUND PH THROUGH PROTON DELIVERY | HOLMES, REX R | — |
| 18841542 | METHODS AND MATERIALS FOR IMAGING ADIPOSE TISSUE | LIPPERT, JOHN WILLIAM | — |
| 18832236 | NOVEL REGIMEN FOR AUGMENTING AND EXTENDING TRANSPLANT TOLERANCE | BARSKY, JARED | — |
| 18752231 | FIBER-SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY | TRAN, LONG T | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| University of California | 30 |
| California Institute of Technology | 11 |
| Bovi, Inc. | 1 |
| Cellsight Technologies Inc. | 1 |
| Vaxequity Ltd. | 1 |
| The Regents of the University of California | 1 |
| UCL BUSINESS LTD | 1 |
| Orthogonal Thinker, Inc. | 1 |
| University of Southern California | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2813 | 2 |
| 1638 | 2 |
| 1643 | 2 |
| 2898 | 2 |
| 3623 | 1 |
| 2878 | 1 |
| 1693 | 1 |
| 2845 | 1 |
| 1767 | 1 |
| 1671 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19245077 | Swarm Based Orchard Management | Bovi, Inc. | CHOY, PAN G | 3623 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 20, 2025 |
| 18990696 | RANGING WITH INTEGRATED OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATORS | California Institute Of Technology | CHEN, CHIA-LING | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2024 | |
| 18849414 | BIOELECTRONIC SMART BANDAGE FOR CONTROLLING WOUND PH THROUGH PROTON DELIVERY | The Regents of the University of California | HOLMES, REX R | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 20, 2024 | |
| 18819803 | QUANTUM COHERENT RECEIVER | California Institute Of Technology | SOHN, SEUNG C | 2878 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 29, 2024 |
| 18841542 | METHODS AND MATERIALS FOR IMAGING ADIPOSE TISSUE | Cellsight Technologies Inc. | LIPPERT, JOHN WILLIAM | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 26, 2024 | |
| 18836272 | NOVEL LIVE MULTI-ANTIGENIC RECOMBINANT VACCINE AGAINST TUBERCULOSIS | The Regents of the University of California | HAUK TEODORO, PRICILA NMN | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 06, 2024 | |
| 18832236 | NOVEL REGIMEN FOR AUGMENTING AND EXTENDING TRANSPLANT TOLERANCE | The Regents of the University of California | BARSKY, JARED | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 23, 2024 | |
| 18730604 | III-NITRIDE-BASED HIGH EFFICIENCY AND HIGH-POWER DEVICES GROWN ON OR ABOVE A STRAIN RELAXED TEMPLATE | The Regents of the University of California | AHMED, MASHAL | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 19, 2024 | |
| 18752231 | FIBER-SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY | California Institute Of Technology | TRAN, LONG T | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 24, 2024 | |
| 18639864 | WEARABLE BIOELECTRONICS FOR PROGRAMMABLE DELIVERY OF THERAPY | The Regents of the University of California | VOKES, KATHLEEN PAIGE | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 18, 2024 | |
| 18629732 | QUANTUM PHASED ARRAYS | California Institute Of Technology | DINKE, BITEW A | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 08, 2024 | |
| 18292207 | BARRIER FUNCTION PRESERVING PEPTIDES FOR MEMBRANES | The Regents of the University of California | HA, JULIE | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 25, 2024 | |
| 18579766 | STRUCTURE-BASED DESIGN OF ANTISENSE OLIGONUCLEOTIDE DRUGS | The Regents of the University of California | YU, DAVID TUYANG | 1693 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2024 |
| 18537495 | ALL-INTEGRATED PHOTONIC TRANSCEIVER WITH A COMMON APERTURE | California Institute Of Technology | WOODS, BRANDON SEAN | 2845 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 12, 2023 |
| 18532212 | DECOMPOSABLE AND RECYCLABLE EPOXY THERMOSETTING RESINS | The Regents of the University of California | MCCULLEY, MEGAN CASSANDRA | 1767 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 113d overdue | Pending | Dec 07, 2023 |
| 18567162 | III-V, II-VI IN-SITU COMPLIANT SUBSTRATE FORMATION | The Regents of the University of California | NICELY, JOSEPH C | 2813 | DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 05, 2023 |
| 18560669 | A PROCESSABLE, HIGH-PERFORMANCE DIELECTRIC ELASTOMER AND MULTILAYER DIELECTRIC ELASTOMER ACTUATOR | The Regents of the University of California | COPENHEAVER, BLAINE R | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 13, 2023 | |
| 18290259 | ENGINEERING STEM CELLS FOR ALLOGENIC CAR T CELL THERAPIES | The Regents of the University of California | LY, KRISTINA ELISABETH | 1671 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 10, 2023 |
| 18290257 | PRODUCTION OF ENGINEERED T CELLS FROM STEM CELLS | The Regents of the University of California | VIVLEMORE, TRACY ANN | 1638 | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | 55d | Pending | Nov 10, 2023 |
| 18559983 | COMB POLYELECTROLYTE STABILIZED COMPLEX COACERVATE EMULSIONS | The Regents of the University of California | SHELTON, SYNPHANE LA'SHAWN | 1621 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 09, 2023 |
| 18559654 | III-NITRIDE-BASED DEVICES GROWN ON A THIN TEMPLATE ON THERMALLY-DECOMPOSED MATERIAL | The Regents of the University of California | YECHURI, SITARAMARAO S | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 08, 2023 | |
| 18476808 | NOVEL COATING METHOD OF COMPLEX 3D STRUCTURES USING LOW PRESSURE CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION | California Institute Of Technology | CHEN, KEATH T | 1716 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 28d | Pending | Sep 28, 2023 |
| 18547752 | METHOD TO IMPROVE THE PERFORMANCE OF GALLIUM-CONTAINING MICRON-SIZED LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICES | The Regents of the University of California | CRAWFORD EASON, LATANYA N | 2813 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 24, 2023 |
| 18352403 | HOT FORMING OF CURVED MIRRORS WITHOUT THE NEED FOR A MANDREL | The Regents of the University of California | DEAN, RAY ALEXANDER | 2872 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 37d overdue | Pending | Jul 14, 2023 |
| 18352175 | EPITAXIAL SUBSTRATE SURFACES FOR SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIAL GROWTH AND IMPROVED SMOOTH SEMICONDUCTOR SURFACES FOR HIGHER CHANNEL MOBILITY THROUGH THE FORMATION AND REMOVAL OF REACTIVE LAYERS | California Institute Of Technology | WEGNER, AARON MICHAEL | 2897 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 13, 2023 |
| 18257548 | RNA CONSTRUCT | Vaxequity Ltd. | WEHBE, ANNE MARIE SABRINA | 1634 | §102§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 14, 2023 |
| 18254086 | CRISPR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN COMPLEX GENOME EDITING OF HUMAN INNATE IMMUNE CELLS | The Regents of the University of California | YU, DAVID TUYANG | 1635 | §102§103§112DPOther | Non-Final OA | 71d | Pending | May 23, 2023 |
| 18252605 | DEVELOPMENT OF A NOVEL ELISA-BASED POINT-OF-CARE ANTIGEN TEST FOR SARS-COV-2 | The Regents of the University of California | LUSI, ELLIS FOLLETT | 1677 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 75d | Pending | May 11, 2023 |
| 18315370 | MICROFLUDIC LAB-ON-CHIP DEVICE, MATRIX, SMALL MOLECULES AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL SPHEROIDS FOR CELL REPROGRAMMING | The Regents of the University of California | BARRON, SEAN C | 1798 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 10, 2023 |
| 18249907 | MONOAMINE OXIDASE BLOCKADE THERAPY FOR TREATING CANCER THROUGH REGULATING TUMOR ASSOCIATED MACROPHAGES (TAMS) | The Regents of the University of California | SHUPE, ELIZABETH A | 1643 | §103§112DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 20, 2023 |
| 18249663 | MONOAMINE OXIDASE BLOCKADE THERAPY FOR TREATING CANCER THROUGH REGULATING ANTITUMOR T CELL IMMUNITY | The Regents of the University of California | YOUNG, MICAH PAUL | 1618 | §102§103DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 19, 2023 |
| 18299415 | METHOD OF TREATING CANCER WITH A BRCA1-ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 1 INHIBITOR AND A DEATH RECEPTOR LIGAND | UCL Business PLC | DENT, ALANA HARRIS | 1643 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 12, 2023 |
| 18248817 | NITRIDE BASED ULTRAVIOLET LIGHT EMITTING DIODE WITH AN ULTRAVIOLET TRANSPARENT CONTACT | The Regents of the University of California | SMITH, BRADLEY | 2817 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 6d | Pending | Apr 12, 2023 |
| 18248740 | METHOD OF TRANSFERRING A PATTERN TO AN EPITAXIAL LAYER OF A LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE | The Regents of the University of California | QI, HUA | 1714 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 19d overdue | Pending | Apr 12, 2023 |
| 18187419 | TECHNIQUES FOR TRANSDUCTION AND STORAGE OF QUANTUM LEVEL SIGNALS | California Institute Of Technology | CHANG, JOSEPH | 2849 | §112 | Final Rejection | 38d overdue | Pending | Mar 21, 2023 |
| 18175378 | METHOD FOR GENERATION OF RANDOM QUANTUM STATES AND VERIFICATION OF QUANTUM DEVICES | California Institute Of Technology | HALES, BRIAN J | 2125 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 30d overdue | Pending | Feb 27, 2023 |
| 18005936 | A CHEMICAL COCKTAIL DRIVING EXPANSION OF MYOGENIC STEM CELLS | The Regents of the University of California | AMICK, THOMAS RUSSE | 1638 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 18, 2023 |
| 18154498 | Alpha-Ketobutyrate, 2-Hydroxybutyrate, and Alpha-Ketoglutarate for Stimulating Hair Growth | The Regents of the University of California | NEAGU, IRINA | 1629 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 13, 2023 |
| 17968556 | WAFER SCALE PRODUCTION OF SUPERCONDUCTING MAGNESIUM DIBORIDE THIN FILMS WITH HIGH TRANSITION TEMPERATURE | California Institute Of Technology | WARTALOWICZ, PAUL A | 1735 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 18, 2022 |
| 17918707 | ROOM TEMPERATURE THREE DIMENSIONAL PRINTING OF A SUPER-SOFT AND SOLVENT FREE ELASTOMER | The Regents of the University of California | BLAND, ALICIA | 1759 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 13, 2022 |
| 17912821 | PSILOCYBIN AND PSILOCIN CONTAINING COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF USING AND MAKING THE SAME | Orthogonal Thinker, Inc. | CAIN, JENNIFER LYNN | 1655 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 79d | Pending | Sep 19, 2022 |
| 17801612 | GROUP III-N LIGHT EMITTER ELECTRICALLY INJECTED BY HOT CARRIERS FROM AUGER RECOMBINATION | The Regents of the University of California | VAN ROY, TOD THOMAS | 2828 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 23, 2022 |
| 17772715 | FORMATION OF MICROLED MESA STRUCTURES WITH ATOMIC LAYER DEPOSITION PASSIVATED SIDEWALLS, A SELF-ALIGNED DIELECTRIC VIA TO THE TOP ELECTRICAL CONTACT, AND A PLASMA-DAMAGE-FREE TOP CONTACT | The Regents of the University of California | MULERO FLORES, ERIC MANUEL | 2898 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 28, 2022 |
| 17766960 | METHOD OF FABRICATING A RESONANT CAVITY AND DISTRIBUTED BRAGG REFLECTOR MIRRORS FOR A VERTICAL CAVITY SURFACE EMITTING LASER ON A WING OF AN EPITAXIAL LATERAL OVERGROWTH REGION | The Regents of the University of California | NETTLES, CORALIE ANN | 2893 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 61d | Pending | Apr 06, 2022 |
| 17642057 | METHOD FOR RELAXING SEMICONDUCTOR FILMS INCLUDING THE FABRICATION OF PSEUDO-SUBSTRATES AND FORMATION OF COMPOSITES ALLOWING THE ADDITION OF PREVIOUSLY UN-ACCESSIBLE FUNCTIONALITY OF GROUP lll-NITRIDES | The Regents of the University of California | PRIDEMORE, NATHAN ANDREW | 2898 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 10, 2022 |
| 17618240 | ENGINEERED OFF-THE-SHELF IMMUNE CELLS AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF | UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | ALSOMAIRY, SARAH ABDOALATIF | 1646 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 10, 2021 |
| 17509926 | SCALABLE AND DISTRIBUTED MACHINE LEARNING FRAMEWORK WITH UNIFIED ENCODER (SULU) | California Institute Of Technology | KAPOOR, DEVAN | 2126 | §103 | Final Rejection | 89d overdue | Pending | Oct 25, 2021 |
| 17047522 | Methods and Compositions for Hair Growth by Activating Autophagy | The Regents of the University of California | SONG, JIANFENG | 1613 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 14, 2020 |
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